Hi, just wanted to say a bit about my setup

Luna: It's 77gals, I think it's something like 32" long, 22" deep, and 24" tall. I really like this size tank, I spent a while looking for something along these dimensions to fit the space in the house it's currently sitting. I finally found a great deal on CL, got the tank, stand, and canopy for $200

I'll take more pics of the equipment area and the new rock stack setup tonight and try to post them. I broke the rock into two stacks with a nice canyon between them. I think it'll allow much more room for coral placement under the MH and not to mention more swimming room once there's fish in it.

 

Great price.....keep us posted. Luna

 

Wow that is a ton of life on your LR!!! That is awesome! After 4 years, the LR in my 20G tanks just sprouted one tiny little white featherduster.

 

Yea, there really is a ton of life on this rock already. I've been entertained watching this peanut worm on the rock come out of his burrow to feed. There's also a lot of spionid worms in the rock. I got a lot of stuff from ipsf.com for my fuge so I know there's spaghetti worms and bristle worms in there at least too. I've also identified strombus snails, bumblebee snails, astrea snails, and trochus snails, but only one or two of each, and they're really small. I've got mini brittle stars, micro hermits, mysis shrimp, and copepods and amphipods in the fuge too, as soon as I add my sand too my DT I'll grab a scoop or two from the fuge to seed it all with the goodies I got from ipsf. They threw in three nice corals for free that I don't know the names of, I'll try to take pictures of those too tonight when I'm done with work.

 

I just snapped some more photos. Here's a couple of the new rock stack
side view:


and here's a straight-on view:


here's a pic of that nice shroom colony that came on the LR:

 

Unidentified Corals

here's the three corals that I got from ipsf.com for free when I bought creatures for my DSB in my fuge, and macro algae.
I think this one is some sort of montipora? I have no idea really though. It was excreting a real slimy sticky substance when I took it out of the bag and it just stuck right to the rock without any problems. Sorry for the bad pic, it's kinda deep in the tank, and really small so it was hard to get a decent shot


This one is really cool when the green polyps come out. It's neon colored, really grabs your attention, I have no idea what it is though.


and finally there's this one, it's kinda crazy, it has a stalk on it like a mushroom and it's fuzzy like a mushroom, but it wasn't fuzzy when I first got it, all the polyps were inside and it was hard, took a couple days for the polyps to come out.


Taking these photos has made it evident I need a new camera.

 

Oh yea, I almost forgot

Here's some pics of what's under the tank too, all these new pics oughta satisfy Luna for now. ;D I know you've got a reputation for demanding more photos.

The sump:


The fuge w/ DSB and skimmer. That light is temporary until I can get a flourescent to hang above the fuge.


Here you can see that 3 doors open on the stand allowing easy access.

 

Tank looks great dude.

 

Well, it's been a while since I've posted any updates here. I've got sand in the display tank now and I got several zoanthid colonies and some montipora frags. I also got some xenia and a small rock of GSP. I got a small lawnmower blenny and he's been doing a great job at cleaning up the tank. The back wall used to be fuzzy and he completely cleaned it off in about 3-4 days. I also got a small 6 line wrasse and a small yellow tang.

This isn't a very good pic but my camera doesn't do well unless there's a lot of light, and only the actinics were on when I decided I should take a picture. I'll try to get a better one sometime soon.



All of my water params have been looking great. I'm really pleased with the live rock I got, it seems I have a pretty mature system in such a short time.
Calcium:520
dKH: 8
Nitrate: 0
Nitrite: 0
Phosphate: 0
Salinity: 1.024
Temp: 80